PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON 

 Vol. IX MARCH-DECEMBER, 1907 Nos. 1-4 



January io, 1907. 



The 2ioth regular meeting was held at the Saengerbund 

 Hall, 314 C street, N. W., President Hopkins in the chair. 

 The following were present: Members, Messrs. Banks, Barber, 

 Bishopp, Burke, Crawford, Currie, Dyar, Fiske, Heidemann, 

 Hinds, Hooker, Hopkins, Knab, Patten, Pierce, Piper, Reeves, 

 Sanders, Schwarz, Stiles, and Webster; visitors. Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher, Dr. J. B. Smith, Mr. R. E. Snodgrass, Mr. J. F. 

 Strauss, Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, and Mr. R. W. Van Horn. 



The treasurer presented his annual report, which was re- 

 ferred to an auditing committee, and subsequently accepted. 



Letters were read by the secretary from Mr. James Beattie, 

 tendering his resignation as an active member of the Society, 

 and from Mr. Charles Fuchs, thanking the Society for sets 

 of its proceedings sent to replace those belonging to him and 

 to the California Academy of Sciences, which were destroyed 

 during the earthquake and fire at San Francisco. 



Apropos of this last communication, Doctor Smith said that 

 he had in his collection specimens of nearly all of the noctuids 

 the types of which were destroyed in San Francisco at that 

 time ; these had been carefully compared with the types, and 

 he considered them to be of nearly equal value. Mr. Banks 

 stated that the same was true as regarded most of the species 

 of spiders which had been described by him and of all of the 



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